bootable-floppy-dos

Use a floppy / usb floppy / "virtual floppy drive" (download and use)

in windows xp / 98? right click on your floppy drive -> FORMAT -> create an MS-DOS startup disk

Format Complete

format your usb stick (in my case 4GB)... Computer Management -> Disk Management File system: FAT Allocation unit size: 512

download mkbt (makeboot 2.0)

copies from a: the boot sector into the file bootsect.bin in c:\temp

mkbt -c a: c:\temp\bootsect.bin

EXPERT MODE writes the bootsect.bin data onto the e: drive (hopefully your USB!)

normally it will check if this is A: or B: (floppy drives)

mkbt -x c:\temp\bootsect.bin e:

I received a "warning different file system ID" ...

If you try to access your E: drive (usb stick) and get a warning that it's not formatted

copy all of the DOS system files from your floppy/virtual floppy onto your

bootdisk.com has a section about DUSE USB on Dos (on floppy?)

Microsoft's Allocation Size table...

Drive Size      FAT Type     Sectors     Cluster
           (logical volume)              Per Cluster     Size
           ----------------   --------   -----------   -------

(Floppy Disks) 360K 12-bit 2 1K 720K 12-bit 2 1K 1.2 MB 12-bit 1 512 bytes 1.44 MB 12-bit 1 512 bytes 2.88 MB 12-bit 2 1K (Hard Disks) 0 MB - 15 MB 12-bit 8 4K 16 MB - 127 MB 16-bit 4 2K 128 MB - 255 MB 16-bit 8 4K 256 MB - 511 MB 16-bit 16 8K 512 MB - 1023 MB 16-bit 32 16K 1024 MB - 2047 MB 16-bit 64 32K